Pressing the start button immediately results in a couple of funny cracks from the speaker, nothing more. If you wait a couple more seconds, it will start properly, however, may shut off again after the self-check, or at the Windows ME start display or upon having start-up almost completed or...
Big question: My PC recently started to auto shutdown half way through the boot-up or some time into running properly. Immediate restart may or may not work, after some time off it usually boots up again (incl. the scandisk etc.)
Has anybody ever observed something like this - is there some...
Addendum to the problem description above:
I have been notified that listing the additional hardware might be useful (Device Manager in Safe-Mode(!) does not report any conflicts). Anyway, here it is:
- Dawicontrol SCSI Adapter
- Teac CD-RW
- SB 1024
- Maxtor 40GB, jumpered as primary slave...
Trying to re-install Win98 on a P3/450, 128 (clean installation). Basically the whole setup is working fine until the very final steps when the personal settings are set-up.
When set-up reaches the point of "Setting up personalized settings - Default channel set-up" it simply freezes...
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